Downloading and uploading images stops every 5%

When downloading and uploading my windows 7 images to my Bananapi and back to my desktop everything is extremely slow. Every 5% or so progress completely stops and fog does basically nothing for sometimes 20 seconds, sometimes for 5 to 10 minutes. Uploading a 30gb images to my bananapi over a gigabit connection took me 1 and a half hour!

The problem is the pause between each transfer. The 5% at a time it transfers takes only a few seconds, and then it stalls again for minutes.

I have no idea what is causing this. Any help?

The bananapi writes the images over usb2 to a 2.5inch HDD. I’m using a class4 SD card for my bananapi OS, but that will be swapped to a class10 card tomorrow(maybe that could be the problem?)

What may be of interest is maybe trying to run on SVN. There is a significant increase in speed between the init’s for upload and download. By significant, I think anybody on the forums running the current “trunk” version of fog can vouch for it.

The kernel I refer to is the one on your fog server, (the one the clients boot to).

My guess, based on 1.2.0 is you haven’t downloaded any custom kernels. Most likely, you’re using 3.14.2.

My guess as to the problem you’re seeing is in part due to the Hardware your fog server is running on.

While it will “work” the speed for upload may be noticable during the “gaps” where the client has to compress the image, to when it passes the now compressed data back up to the server.

What may be of interest is maybe trying to run on SVN. There is a significant increase in speed between the init’s for upload and download. By significant, I think anybody on the forums running the current “trunk” version of fog can vouch for it.